Networking, Not Internet, Lands More Jobs
Job search has always been a dynamic and unpredictable field. The latest competitive technologies and resources might help you find a job today, but tomorrow - you're two steps behind. That's why it's somewhat refreshing to hear that good old-fashioned "making connections" is still the number one resource for landing a job - at least in the Northeast: A new study by Right Management looked...
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June Real Employee Earnings Disappoint
Real average hourly earnings for all employees rose 0.2 percent from May to June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports. The change was a result of the 0.2 percent decrease in the Consumer Price Index, which led to the .02 percent increase for average hourly earnings. On its own, the average hourly earnings did not change. This is the second month of positive trending, after a rough downward...
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Recruitment
Recruitment is a term used to describe the entire process of finding and hiring qualified human talent for an open vacancy or for a proactive hire for an organization. In the United States, recruitment is more frequently referred to as recruiting, talent acquisition, or hiring. Around the world, particularly in the UK, recruitment is the most frequently used term to describe the process of...
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How to Use Online Networking Sites to Find a Job
When was the last time you looked at your local newspaper's classified ads section for a job opportunity? The actual newspaper, not those same listings on the paper's Web site. The way people search for jobs has changed tremendously over the last decade. It's even gone beyond job search sites such as Monster and Career Builder. Many people are using online networking tools to find jobs. If you're...
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How to Make a Job Offer
In recruiting, the job offer is the pivotal point of the hiring process because it includes all the details about compensation and the exact duties of the job that a new hire is getting. A job offer is more than just an offer of compensation to a prospective employee, it is the culmination of weeks of work for the recruiter and the final result of resume screening and interviews. Often, job...
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Work4 Labs Releases Jobs For Me App
Work4 Labs, a leading provider of Facebook recruiting technology, recently announced the launch of their new app, Jobs For Me, which allows universities to provide career center resources directly from their Facebook page. The Jobs for Me app offers complete integration with any university's online career center, redirecting the features onto the Facebook platform where students are more...
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ADP Launches Mobile HR App
Automatic Data Processing (ADP), one of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions, just launched a new tool that promises to deliver Human Resources functions on-the-go. The ADP Mobile Solutions application - a free, easy-to-use app that gives employees access to their HR, Payroll and Benefits information - is now available for most major mobile devices, ADP said in a...
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Twitter Reaches 200 Million Accounts
Twitter just crossed a massive milestone. The social media network now has over 200 million accounts While this is great news for the company, it does raise some interesting questions about the numbers - how many of these accounts are still active? Or even used with relative frequency? How many are accounts are just bots spamming regurgitated content around? It goes on. Facebook takes its...
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4 Tips To Boost Your Placement Rate
There's never enough time. You're making countless candidate calls every day, interviewing candidates left and right, coordinating schedules between your hiring managers and candidates while addressing conflicts as they (invariably) arise. You're a recruiting machine - but there is only so much time in the day. After you have the volume game down, in order to improve your recruiting, you...
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Time Magazine's "The Future of Work"—Signs of the Times
In its May 2009 compilation of ten articles titled "TIME Specials: The Future of Work", the online edition of Time Magazine offered its take on the future of work—its forms, functions, opportunities, challenges and constraints. After recently reviewing the more recent PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC) report, "Managing Tomorrow's People: the Future of Work to 2020", I felt a...
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CareerBuilder's Employer App For iPhone
The future of recruitment may lie in mobile devices. CareerBuilder, the leading online career site in the U.S. - recently launched their own iPhone app for employers. Entitled, "CareerBuilder for Employers," the technology embraces the way communication and talent acquisition lines are changing. "Being able to reach potential employees wherever you are provides a whole new level of...
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Using Frustration to Fight Job-Market Depression
If you need a reminder about how harrowing chronic unemployment and its direst consequences can be, visit Down But Not Out. There you will find 50 recently posted stories selected from 6,000 emails and comments chronicling the financial, professional and lifestyle devastation inflicted by these recent hard times. You will also read narratives of hopelessness, despair, desperation,...
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